I found some pages on the web from an unfinished Tintin comic, titled: "Tintin et le thermozéro''Tintin and Haddock are in Italie on a road and Haddock was almost hit by several cars...I translated…Continue

"Okay, this is the best I could come up with. Does this seem right?
I am an agent from the FBI. At the moment all spies (what kind of spies?) are under pressure. The “freelance spies”, which means that they all work for themselves and not…"

"Okay, this is the best I could come up with. Does this seem right?
I am an agent from the FBI. At the moment all spies (what kind of spies?) are under pressure. The “freelance spies”, which means that they all work for themselves and not…"

"It is just absurd . Things go wrong back to front.
The wipers fail when they are needed and we need to wait for them not to be needed for them to start working again.
It is a bit like slapstick the humour of the silent movies."

"This is already very cool! Thank you! I also wanted to know why the windscreen wipers stopped working and why they suddenly can't be stopped. Why would windscreen wipers stop working due to humidity? This story was written in 1960. Was this a…"

"Haddock: Zut,the windscreen wipers (that are) not working. That is all we needed.
Tintin:It is on account of the humidity.Stay calm,as soon as it stops raining they will get going again ( -;) )
Haddock: Ah ,here we are!
Haddock: Tintin…"

Tintin and Haddock are in a car and it's raining. Haddock is irritated by the rain.I tried to translate the text on the image. But I don't understand the parts of the windscreen wipers.If I understand correctly they fail to work properly due to humidity. Can somebody help me translate the texts? Thank you!See More

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